[PATCH] Add a few noreturn keywords

Ulrich Drepper drepper@gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 19:46:00 GMT 2012


On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 16:55, Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> The following prefix form is the most natural one for use with _Noreturn,
> but only works with GCC 2.8 and later (including EGCS 1.0 and 1.1), not
> 2.7:

This just means it's not time for such a change.  gcc before 2.7 is
still a valid compiler, certainly *MUCH* more important than any
compiler which doesn't understand the gcc syntax and/or can rewrite
system headers.



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